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Thread started 12/23/14 7:18am

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Pharrell William's Lawyers Threaten YouTube with $1B lawsuit

Group claims web giant does not have performance rights to about 20,000 songs

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/pharrell-williams-s-lawyer-threatens-youtube-with-1b-lawsuit-1.2882234

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Reply #1 posted 12/23/14 7:52am

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In before some orger finds a way to blame Prince for this.. jk smile

Change it one more time..
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Reply #2 posted 12/23/14 8:03am

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Aloe Black had a similar clain to Pandora and various other streaming websites.

I hope they all win.

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Reply #3 posted 12/23/14 8:50am

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Irving Azoff, is not Pharrell's lawyer. Irving Azoff is a music industry heavyweight that owns that licensing company Global Music Rights. He the management team of some of your favs.

That headline is misleading.

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Reply #4 posted 12/23/14 10:28am

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I hope they win!

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Reply #5 posted 12/23/14 1:29pm

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Google have claimed that they actually do have the rights to the songs. Which they likely do via Google Music.

To say "Happy" only generated $2,700 for 43 million plays sounds harsh. However it likely only got that many plays. Since it was available free on YouTube. Take away that and suddenly your song may not be so popular. It's still on the radio, and MTV etc... So thats not lost income caused by Youtube.

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Reply #6 posted 12/23/14 4:33pm

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So is he trying to get some money, so he can offset what he owes Marvin Gaye's estate? lol
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Reply #7 posted 12/24/14 12:26am

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HatrinaHaterwitz said:

So is he trying to get some money, so he can offset what he owes Marvin Gaye's estate? lol

For the win falloff

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Reply #8 posted 12/24/14 5:37am

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HatrinaHaterwitz said:

So is he trying to get some money, so he can offset what he owes Marvin Gaye's estate? lol



Did you even bother to read that it's not about just Pharrells music. Smh.
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